2 Of Doctors and Detectives, Chemistry and Mathematics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Citation xiii
5. Dostoevsky, Science, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel 1
6. 1 Nineteenth-Century Materialisms 15
7. 2 Of Doctors and Detectives, Chemistry and Mathematics 39
8. 3 Bodies and Plots 72
9. 4 Metaphor and Allegory 107
10. 5 Social Physics 141
11. Last Words and Open Endings 177
12. Notes 187
13. Works Cited 197
14. Index 209